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Biography

Gower was knighted at Whitehall on 24 June 1630, and succeeded his father, Sir Thomas Gower, 1st Baronet, in his estate, and title of Baronet. He was a sufferer for his loyalty to Charles I, having been twice High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1641 and 1662), and attended on the King when he was shut out of Hull. He raised a regiment of dragoons at his own expense, of which his younger brother, Doyley was colonel.[1][2] After the Restoration he served in Parliament as Member for Malton from 1661 until his death in 1672.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Collins's peerage of England", by Arthur Collins (1812)

Further reading

Newman, P. R. (1993). The old service: Royalist regimental colonels and the Civil War, 1642-46, Manchester University Press ND, ISBN0-7190-3752-2, ISBN978-0-7190-3752-8p. 124: Suspicion as to his loyalty and capture in 1645.